Ansible: In a playbook, filter a role by tag(s) without passing at the command-line

Question

In Ansible 1.7, I can use --tags from the command-line to only run a subset of that playbooks tasks.

But I\'m wanting to bake into my playbook to run a set of roles wit

Answer 1

You only have the following options with the current version of Ansible:

1. Specify the tags on the command line
2. Use a variable instead of a tag to conditionally run tasks
3. Split your webserver role into multiple roles and use role dependencies for the common tasks

This feature request has come up on the mailing list a few times and I haven't seen any indication from the dev team that it will be added as a new feature.

Answer 2

The use of conditionals can meet your needs.

You can see more information in my answer to another person's similar question here.